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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ChadEcuadorCongo - Kinshasa
7,55912,26851,181
7,82112,44652,782
8,09212,62954,453
8,39512,82756,170
8,76313,07457,860
9,19113,36859,599
9,59413,66161,474
9,96713,91563,479
10,33814,13365,590
10,72814,35267,800
11,13914,56970,114
11,55014,78672,550
11,98315,00275,138
12,42715,21877,792
12,89515,43380,534
13,37915,64783,368
13,82315,86086,229
14,27716,07289,193
14,76516,28292,209
15,25216,48995,232
15,75016,69398,320
16,25716,894101,499
16,77617,093104,767
17,30717,288108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Chad, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.